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Edward Downes

After an earlier academic career, Edward Downes studied conducting with a Carnegie Scholarship under Hermann Scherchen and in 1950 took an appointment as a conductor with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, two years later joining the staff of Covent Garden. His period at the London Royal Opera House brought many notable performances, in particular in 1963 the first performance in the West of Shostakovich's opera Katerina Izmailova, with an English translation by Edward Downes himself. His later period as music director of the Australian Opera brought a production of Prokofiev's War and Peace, again with the conductor's own English translation. A distinguished international career was augmented by appointment in 1980 as principal conductor of the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, now the BBC Philharmonic, a position he held until 1991, the year in which he was knighted. In the same year he was appointed associate music director and principal conductor at the Royal Opera, a house with which he has been associated for over forty years.





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